Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...variety of characters brought into view: a Polish Jew, a German widow, a petty fascist, an English flier, etc. (English titles are provided for the eight foreign languages used in the background behind the Englishmen.) Yet among all these there is no villain, in the Hollywood sense of the word-even the fascist is an understandable human being. Nowhere have the Swiss fallen into the trap of personifying evil in well-known typed characters: the snivelling, mustached Italian informer, the hard-bitten, blond German storm trooper, or the bloated soap-box Mussolini. Instead, they have kept evil as a massive...
Exactly how many would vote these convictions at Atlantic City was still uncertain: U.A.W. men, like all political convention delegates, follow the crowd; and some of the most influential of their leaders had still to pass the word. To the rank & file the key play hung on the question: what will Addes do? If George Addes, who has begun to feel a certain amount of admiration for Reuther's recent accomplishments, followed it up by backing the U.A.W.'s redhead, Thomas was out, and Reuther...
...West End were red with reflected fire, and the raindrops were like blood on the panes. That was the Christmas you sang carols in the shelters, and you were living a life, not an apology. . . . And it was then that I learned the meaning of that great word: steady...
Shock (20th Century-Fox) is a mild word for what happens to a nice, petite young Army wife in this fair-to-middling thriller...
...pulpit of one of Manhattan's toniest churches. But on Easter Sunday, 1944, when Job intoned his text, "I am the Resurrection and the Life," none of the congregation (which included Gladys, Laura and Nick) knew that Job had suddenly realized that "he did not believe a word of what he was saying...